Bloom, Molina, Hawkins sign for 'Education'

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Orlando Bloom, Alfred Molina and Sally Hawkins have joined the cast of An Education, reports Variety.

Peter Sarsgaard, Rosumund Pike, Emma Thompson, Olivia Williams and Carey Mulligan are already on board to star in the Lone Scherfig film.

An Education is a coming-of-age drama set in '60s London that sees a 17-year-old girl (Mulligan) swept off her feet by a thirtysomething man (Sarsgaard).

Bloom hasn't appeared on screen since last summer's Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.

Author Nick Hornby is writing the Education script based on Lynn Barner's autobiographical essay.

The film begins shooting in London next month.